Stefan Seefeld wrote, quoting Ralf Wildenhues: >> The idea is that your final package tarball should contain what's >> needed to recreate the generated configure script. > > It is one thing for a source package to contain M4 code, but another > to require users to have autotools installed. Ralf isn't saying that the user needs to have the autotools installed; he is saying that your package *should* include all of the m4 source, so that the user has the option to modify and/or rebuild from scratch, if he so wishes. That's an important distinction. In your case, configure is merely checking that you have provided the m4 sources; it probably doesn't need to do that, but equally, it doesn't imply that it requires the autotools to be installed. Regards, Keith. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
